• Registered: 2005-03-31
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Topic: Defiance Art

Hey everyone,

I thought you all might like to see the pic I am working on... It is meant to accompany the short story "The Fall Of Kalanid" by Justin from D:VG.
I still have to add in a lot of rendering before its done.

Josh

  • Registered: 2005-03-28
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Looking great!

You really captured the moment.  big_smile

JP

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Nice.

Did this come from setting/story or from a specific game session?
If a session, is there an AAR?

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Taltos wrote:

Nice.

Did this come from setting/story or from a specific game session?

Its from a short story [which is excellent, BTW] that appears in the Defiance Vital Ground rulebook [it starts on page 149]. I reserved a place to put in this pic once I had finished it [see page 155 - there is a box with a simple graphic in it saying "image not available". Soon, there will be! smile ]

Josh

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Impressive work, as always.

How's the A Modest Proposal comic coming along, BTW?

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for some reason the guy standing seems to be saying;

"I hate bugs." big_smile

very nice art.

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I LOVE the perspective on this piece!  Can't wait to see the final product...

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tnjrp wrote:

Impressive work, as always.

How's the A Modest Proposal comic coming along, BTW?

Thanks for the compliments.  As for the comic, I presently have 3 pages of rough sketches with dialogue done, and have started some rough work on a fourth page.  So, not much there yet, but I did do the 3rd & 4th pages fairly recently, so i haven't stopped working on it!

Josh

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Good to hear it's still on the to-do list.

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Nice. I love the lines on the power armour. Although, the corpse isn't really in grotesque enough disarray for my tastes, and I am compelled to ask if maybe there could be a couple more phase-spiders, for more of a seething swarming look?

Yeah, I know I'm "not right". It is beautiful work Josh.

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smokingwreckage wrote:

Nice. I love the lines on the power armour. Although, the corpse isn't really in grotesque enough disarray for my tastes, and I am compelled to ask if maybe there could be a couple more phase-spiders, for more of a seething swarming look?

Yeah, I know I'm "not right". It is beautiful work Josh.

Actually, you are quite right, Sam! I was concerned that I didn't include enough Phase Spiders in the image to depict that "seething swarming" aspect of the story. I didn't want to mess up the composition too much by drawing a virtual "sea" of critters, so I tried to compensate by adding a few splattered spider bodies... :twisted:

I wish I could show off the final, but there is a tiny little patch of real estate in the pic that needs some attention yet. I have been working like a fiend this week at my job [23hrs in the past 2 days alone], but I hope to get back at the art this weekend!

Josh

  • Registered: 2005-03-28
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Sometimes you just gotta mess up the composition with chaos and death. I have this belief that everything looks better after you frig with it, break it, and stick it back together.

You know best! My composition sucks smile

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Ok, I am done at last... here it is! This is a colour version - the actual printed pic won't have that brownish tinge to it. Thats just from the type of markers I use. Sorry its much smaller, but the file size would be too large otherwise.

Josh

  • Registered: 2005-03-28
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Nice! The explosion now makes me think of Japanese inks....

  • Registered: 2005-03-28
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I kinda like the color as is. smile

Gives it a melancholy, desperate stand feel.

Quality picture.
Wish I had that kind of talent.

  • Registered: 2005-03-31
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Taltos wrote:

I kinda like the color as is. smile

Me too, but in the book, it can only be greyscale, so the tinge of brown won't be in it  :cry:

Taltos wrote:

Quality picture.
Wish I had that kind of talent.

Thanks, I appreciate the compliment!
Josh